Stump bed
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1830
Materials
Beechwood, Canvas, Pine
Measurements
83 x 90 cm
Place of origin
England
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127599
Summary
A stained pine and beech stump bed, English, circa 1830, the headboard with chamfered rectangular posts. the foot posts with vase-turned finials, with original cord and canvas bed-base, all raised on wooden castors.
Provenance
By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959.